Eleanor Beaufort

She was the daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, KG (1406–1455), by his wife, Lady Eleanor Beauchamp. Eleanor Beauchamp was the daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, by his first wife, Elizabeth de Berkeley (herself daughter and heiress of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, by his wife, Margaret de Lisle, 3rd Baroness Lisle); she was also an elder half-sister of Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick, and Anne Neville, 16th Countess of Warwick.

Eleanor Beaufort married twice. Her first marriage was in circa April 1458Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 106 to James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1461). Butler was Lieutenant of Ireland in 1453; when civil conflict broke out, the lieutenant fought on the Lancastrian side. He was present at the First Battle of St. Albans in 1455, Mortimer's Cross in 1461, and at the Battle of Towton. Butler also held the post of councilor to the Lancastrian Prince of Wales. After Towton, he was a proscribed as a traitor and was captured in the same year at Cockermouth and executed there in 1461.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}

Her second marriage was to Sir Robert SpencerReference:C 146/1170 Description:

Receipt from Robert Spencer, knight, and Eleanor his wife, Countess of Wiltshire, late the wife of James Earl of Wiltshire, to Thomas, Earl of Ormond, William Husee, the King's Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, John Cheyne, William Hody, and John Biconell, knights, William Martyn, William Froste, and Thomas Cary, for 40 marcs, paid in the church of St. Paul at the Rood of the north door, part of a yearly rent of 80 marcs payable out of certain manors, &c.: [Middx.]. Note:Fragment of sealDate: London at the Rood of the north door in St. Paul's, 3 June, A.D. 1498Held by: The National Archives, KewLegal status: Public Record of Spencer Combe in the parish of Crediton, Devon,Risdon, Tristram (d. 1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, pp.100-101 [https://books.google.com/books?id=w_0GAAAAQAAJ&dq=spenser+combe+devon&pg=PA100] by whom she had two daughters and co-heiresses:

• Margaret Spencer (or Eleanor Spencer;Vivian, p.150, pedigree of Cary 1472–1536); wife of Thomas Carey of Chilton Foliot, Wiltshire, second son of Sir William Carey (1437-1471) of Cockington, Devon.Vivian, p.150, pedigree of Cary She had two sons:
• Sir John Carey (1491–1552) of Plashey, eldest son, ancestor to the Carey Viscounts Falkland.Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.150, 154-6, pedigree of Cary
• William Carey, her second son, the first husband of Anne Boleyn's sister Mary Boleyn and ancestor to the Carey Barons Hunsdon, Barons Carey of Leppington, Earls of Monmouth, Viscounts Rochford and Earls of Dover.Vivian, pp.150, 154-6, pedigree of Cary
• Catherine Spencer (1477–1542); wife of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, and mother to Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, an early love interest of Anne Boleyn.

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|5= 5. Margaret Holland

|6= 6. Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick

|7= 7. Elizabeth de Berkeley

|8= 8. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster

|9= 9. Katherine Swynford

|10= 10. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent

|11= 11. Alice FitzAlan

|12= 12. Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick

|13= 13. Margaret Ferrers

|14= 14. Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley

|15= 15. Margaret de Lisle, 3rd Baroness Lisle

|16= 16. Edward III of England

|17= 17. Philippa of Hainault

|18= 18. Sir Payne de Roet

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|20= 20. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent

|21= 21. Joan, 4th Countess of Kent

|22= 22. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel

|23= 23. Eleanor of Lancaster

|24= 24. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick

|25= 25. Katherine Mortimer

|26= 26. William Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Groby

|27= 27. Margaret de Ufford

|28= 28. Maurice de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley

|29= 29. Elizabeth le Despenser

|30= 30. Warine de Lisle, 2nd Baron Lisle

|31= 31. Margaret Pipard

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• The royal descent of Nelson and Wellington, from Edward the first, George Russell French, 1853, p. 28
• The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII, Retha Marvine Warnicke, 1984, p. 36
• The Baronetage of England: containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English, Edward Kimber, 1771, p. 221

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